The day in photos

White Bengal tiger Clara plays with one of her three cubs during a news presentation at Huachipa’s private zoo in Lima, Peru. The 2-month-old cubs, yet unnamed, were born in captivity at the park.

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The tail section of Air Force One is pictured on the tarmac at Elmendorf Air Force Base outside Anchorage, Alaska, as President Obama stayed onboard during a refuel stop on his return to the United States from Asia.

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Activists from “Bayan Muna” (“My Country First”) use their mobile phones in front of a mock U.S. flag before the start of a march to the U.S. embassy to protest against a state visit by President Obama in Manila,
Philippines.

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An employee poses with “The Blue” diamond at Christie’s auction house in London. Christie’s London is displaying the largest flawless fancy vivid blue diamond ever to appear at auction. The diamond is pegged at $21 million to $25 million and is the highlight of an upcoming Magnificent Jewels sale in Geneva.

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Britain’s Queen Elizabeth pats former Grand National favorite Teaforthree, during her visit to Cotts Equine Hospital in Narberth, Wales.

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Pro-Russian activists storm the regional government headquarters in Luhansk, Ukraine.

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Jets perform during Saudi security forces’ Abdullah’s Sword military drill in Hafar Al-Batin, near the border with Kuwait.

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A visitor stands in front of QR-codes information panels during a ceremony to open an information showroom dedicated to the Zaryadye park project in central Moscow. The showroom, shaped as a dome which houses exhibition halls covered with QR-codes information panels and displaying digital illustration of the project, was opened by Moscow’s Mayor Sergei Sobyanin on Tuesday on the site of the future park in a few minutes walk distance from Red Square and the Kremlin.

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Palestinians look out of the window of their house at Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip.

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A man leads a horse on Xolotlan lake off the coast near Mateares, Nicaragua. Xolotlan Lake was the epicenter of the recent earthquake that struck Nicaragua.

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Members and supporters of Ukrainian far-right radical groups take part in a torch-light procession to commemorate people killed in recent clashes during protest rallies held by Euromaidan movement in central Kiev, Ukraine.

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A Sri Lankan leopard snarls in his cage at a zoo in Dehiwala near Colombo. The Sri Lankan leopard is a leopard subspecies native to Sri Lanka.

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Model Jenny Bishop poses next to the wedding outfits of Kate Moss and Jamie Hince, on display in the Wedding Dresses 1775-2014 exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

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Arkansas National Guard Staff Sgt. Skipper Smith hangs an American flag on a pole at the site of a home that was destroyed when a tornado hit the area Tuesday in Vilonia, Arkansas.

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Spike Lee watches as NBA Commissioner Adam Silver addresses the media about the investigation involving Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling and accusations that he made racist remarks to a girlfriend.

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Protesters clash with police while trying to surge towards the U.S. Embassy in Manila to protest President Obama’s first ever state visit to the Philippines.

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Tyren Johnson, 3, of Detroit, walks with Detroit Fire Department mascot Patches during his wish to be a fireman at Engine 54 in DetroiT. Make-A-Wish Michigan is celebrating World Wish Day by granting Tyren, who had a heart transplant, his wish.

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A couple of ducklings are out for a stroll through a Chambersburg, Pa., parking lot during the afternoon rain. A flood watch is in effect for Franklin County, Pa., through Thursday morning.

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Shown is a historical marker outside of Ed Hermance’s Giovanni’s Room, the nation’s oldest gay bookstore in Philadelphia. Hermance has owned the store for four decades but says independent bookstores are having a hard time competing with e-tailers like Amazon and that he plans to close the doors for good next month.

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People look at Russian military vehicles making their way through the center of Moscow during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade, which will take place at Moscow’s Red Square on May 9 to celebrate 69 years of the victory in WWII.

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International and Australian air crews involved in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines plane MH370 prepare for an official photograph on the tarmac at the Royal Australian Air Force Pearce Base in Bullsbrook, near Perth.